Needles & Grooves

Sadly, another one bites the dust.

They are supposed to be a sports blog. Most great sites should be abandoned by readers when a giant corporation buys them.

This is for mourning Deadspin not getting into 'well actually' discussions. Do that elsewhere.

Reread The Night The Lights Went Out and a few other pieces this afternoon. They'll be missed.

Funnily enough I'm not sad about Drew. He'll find places to write elsewhere that will be easily accessible. It's really just the whole ethos of that place is now going to be lost to the sands of time because of VC scumbags.

I appreciate a lot of the writer sticking to their guns and resigning and the meta-reporting on the private equity bros dumb assery as they jumped ship. It feels like Grantland and The AV Club before it (to name just a few others that I really enjoyed).

Seems like this has just become part of the life cycle of any successful media enterprise now, The vampires show up, strip it of all the things that made it entertaining and everyone moves on to something else.

Yeah, that has to be an insanely difficult thing to do in the media landscape as it is. Less scary for the big names like Drew and Roth, probably, but still a huge leap.

Good riddance.

Cool thanks for the contribution. Maybe next time consider not posting and being a jerk when people are commiserating.

Ridiculous things deserve ridicule and an unprofitable sports site that wrote ridiculous articles about pretty much everything but sports falls squarely into that category.

Cool. Please feel free to pretend like you can put me on ignore. We’d both be happier.

Some of the most creative pieces I ever read were on Deadspin. If I wanted straight sports, I stuck to ESPN/Sports Illustrated. They filled a void that was certainly there and satisfied a hunger for sports content that went beyond sports. To kick that to the curb and "censor" it is taking away the only thing that made it special.

Lmao. Deadspin was definitely profitable and the non-straight-sports articles got *way* more traffic than the sports stuff.

We would if I could, but you will always show up in my feeds. So that ship has sailed.

Is it literally impossible for you to just not say anything? Just don’t post on my profile man.

It's hard to feel comfortable with the VC slime oozing out of the athletic, but I subscribe because my local writers are excellent, even did a patreon for one of them before the athletic started.

The bigger names from deadspin will get scooped up somewhere but I would definitely pay for some kind of independent site.